Tahiti and GeForce 6800 XT - video card comparison

Tahiti

GeForce 6800 XT

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

Tahiti

NV42

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

September 2005

Interface

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

1x Molex

Core clock speed

450 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

4,313 million

202 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2048

Texture fill rate

5.400

Memory type

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1200 MBps

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_1)

9.0c (9_3)

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.0 (full) Shader Model6.5 (5.1)3.0

Vulkan

1.2.170

N/A